St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-10

on Oct. 4 should be secured and framed
and scattered broadcast over the terri
tory, to be hung in every farm house
and city dwelling, as warning to flu
ture generations.
Gen. CAMPBELL refused to furnish an
abstract of his Milbank address to the
GLOBE, and the consequence is that but
few people in Dakota will ever know
that he made speech. The vOciferous
agitatOr has less shrewdness than he
has generally been credited with.
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A Valley City correspondent senuS
some cheering intelligence regarding
the marked change in Judge FRANCIS
since he was broiled on the gridiron.
There seems to be ground for hope of
his complete reformation.
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Count noses when the North Dakota
division convention assemblies and see
how many Democratic delegates there
are.
And still that 800, 900 appropriation re-
mains where the Yankton trustees can
not get hold of it.
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If Editor PIERCE wishes to be known
as an honorable man, and desires to re-
tain the respect of the people of the ter
ritory, he must face the music and quit
shirking. He charged that officials of
the administration at Bismarck were
writing for the GLOBE, as special staff
contributors, employing their time in
this way and drawing salaries from the
territorial treasury. The GLOBE branded
this as malicious falsehood, and asked
Editor Pierce to prove it, or, like gen.
tleman, acknowledge his error. He
lodges the point and comes back in this
way:
The governor has a perfect right to hire
men to write and tell them what to say, and
date the sayings at Watertown or Pierre or
any other place.
The territorial employees, who draw
salaries from the treasury. don't write
the articles, then! The govern
ment hires them! Editor PIERCE con-
cedeS that the GLOBES staff is not being
paid out of the territorial treasury.
Then let him stand on the issue that the
governor hires them. The fact is, the
GLOBE pays for the work of its own
staff, including the especial contrib
utor," who seems to be such thorn in
the side of the ex-governor. He is in
the regular employ of the paper; is on
its pay rolls; and receives his compensa-
ton just as the other employees do. Gov.
CHURCH has nothing to do with his
compensation or the preparation or die
tation of his letters. Is this enough for
Editor PIERCE? Does he prefer to per-
sist in his course of unjust inuendo and
persistent endeavor to create false i'm
preston after this statement? If so, the
high reputation he has heretofore en-
joyed will certainly suffer.
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The Woonsocket correspondent of the
Pioneer Press, who seems to be so ter
ribly agitated about the funny antics
of the territorial officials and the tad
vertising methods of the administra-
tion," could easily be spotted. He has
sucked at the public teat so long, and
absorbed SO much of the ''beneflts" of
Republican ring rule in Dakota, that the
thought of being fired out literally drives
him wild. He needn't worry, though.
He can't get back again. An honest
Democratic governor stands in his way,
and will for many years to come. But
there is no law to prevent the Woon-
socket dyspeptic from bowling.
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There is man out at Bon Homme
who claims to be mortified about the
methods of the present territorial ad-
ministration. He is probably some old
political corpse who had mortified almost
to putrefaction before he came to Da-
kota.
Editor PIERCE has stepped into the
shoes of the lamented CARRUTH, whose
Dakota Bell is dead, and will hence
forth pose as humorist. His efforts in
that direction, in his last Dakota edi-
ton, were simply charming. Two
thirds of his paragraphs were in the
vein of light and breezy sarcasm, and he
developed rare traits of humor hitherto
unsuspected. His success in this new
field has been so marked that the GLOBE
can not resist the temptation to cartoon
him i'll his true character, and thus i'm
press upon the people the full value of
his really striking characteristics. He
is not a statesman; neither is he an ed
itorial essayist. He is humorist. Great
things may be expected of him in this
| direction in future, and his department
| will be read with eager interest here
after.
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Here is specimen of the honorable
methods being employed in the fight
against Gov. CHURCH and the admins
tration. 1t is paragraph that was
| printed in the last Dakota edition of a
certain paper over the initials, &c.
A. P.''
Surely, the nerve Of Gov CHURCH is some
! thing remarkable. But his cheek beats it.:
for if we are rightly informed, he actually
wrote this squib, freight caboose,'' excel
lent governor and all, and sent it in to the
| GLOBE himself.
The man who wrote these lines could
not have believed that he was telling
the truth; much less could he have ex-
| pected the public to do so. What is to
be thought of man who will deliber-
ately make such a charge without hav-
ing the slightest foundation for it!
! ~
The story about the disaffection of F.
NJ. ZIEBACH, of Yankton, was On par
with the insane talk about the inten-
| tiOnS of NJ. III. DAY. Mr.. ZIEBACH saws
he is for CLEVELAND, and has never ex-
pressed an intention to work against
| him.
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Readers of the Dakota edition of the
GLOBE who are in doubt as to what
| portion of the reading matter is edito-